'The Voice' marks a new beginning for Hey Monday's Cassadee Pope

"The Voice": Pictured at the "Blind Auditions" and backstage is Cassadee Pope. (photos by Tyler Golden and Paul Drinkwater/NBC)

Behind the Screens with Joshua Maloni

Dia Frampton and
Juliet Simms left well-known bands to try their hand as solo artists
on NBC's "The Voice." They did this to take the next step in
their line of work and prove their musical mettle.

Though both
finished in the runner-up slot, there's no doubt the exposure they
received has bolstered their careers in everything from touring to
record sales to industry acclaim. Dia signed a record contract with
Universal Republic Records (official label of "The Voice"), and
toured with her coach, Blake Shelton, while Juliet is currently
writing songs for a new album and working with top-tier producers.

Cassadee Pope is
looking to follow in Dia's and Juliet's footsteps this season on "The
Voice."

At the age of 18,
she formed the band Hey Monday. Cassadee and co. were signed to
Decaydance and Columbia Records and toured with Fall Out Boy. The
band performed on the Warped Tour and appeared on "Jimmy Kimmel
Live."

In her "Voice"
intro, Cassadee, now 22, said, "I love my band, but I'm definitely
at a point in my life where I'm ready to make it on my own."

"We're
on a hiatus," she told BTS. "That's, we don't want to say
we've broke up, because we didn't know if down the road we would
ever get back together and do more stuff. So we're all doing our
own things right now."

On "The Voice,"
Cassadee's performance of "Torn" resulted in chair turns from all
four coaches. She ultimately chose Blake.

As she moves
forward in the competition, Cassadee knows her fans will support her,
but she realizes it will take more than that to win "The Voice."

"I
definitely think that going on tour and performing a lot has really
helped me, but the same could be said about anyone else that's ever
played any shows or anything like that," she said. "Amanda has
been on some huge tours, so she definitely has had probably more
experience than I've had on stage.

"But
I do feel a lot of love from the fans that I've already made and it
makes me feel a little more confident and a little more fearless when
I'm going into such a weird -- like it's just not something that
I've experienced before. Especially like a competition setting.
Because tours are definitely not like that. But it's cool and I
think, compared to the actual audience that watched 'The Voice,' my
fanbase is probably not even 10 percent of that number so I'm not --
I feel great about it, and I feel like lucky to have them. But I also
know that it's also a very small amount compared to the big
picture."

Cassadee
said it's "definitely inspiring to see Dia and Juliet come out the
way they did. And also Jesse (aka Charlotte Sometimes), she did
pretty well, too."

She
knows "The Voice" is a golden opportunity to reach new fans.

"It's
a platform that we didn't get otherwise," Cassadee said. "As
much as we were, we accumulated fanbases and had opportunities that
some people weren't able to get, this is definitely the biggest
thing that any of us have ever been able to be a part of."